About

A single-page web app built in React that lets users search for movies (using OMDB's API) and nominate five movies.

👉 Try it out here!

Demo Video

Watch a demo of the app in action!

Contents

• Technologies
• App Features
• Future Improvements
• About The Developer
• Deployment
• License

Technologies

• React
• TypeScript
• Recoil for state management
• React Router
• React Spring
• React Flip Toolkit
• React Modal
• React Content Loader
• React Intersection Observer
• React Tooltip
• OMDB API
• Jest Testing Framework
• HTML
• CSS

App Features

• Users can search OMDB to find movies they want to nominate. ✨
• Movie posters are animated using React Spring and React Flip Toolkit.
• Infinite scroll loads additional movies as the user scrolls and is implemented with React Intersection Observer and React Content Loader.
• Movie details and ratings are provided in an accessible modal using React Modal and can be seen by clicking on a movie poster in the search results or the nominations footer.
• A user's nominations are saved to local storage so results will persist even if they leave the page.
• I chose to build with Recoil, an experimental state management library for React, because it offers an orthogonal approach to managing state. Selectors are used to handle asynchronous data fetching from OMDB's API.
• The design of the app is responsive and can be viewed on desktop or mobile.
• Jest Testing Framework is used to test the end-to-end functioning of the app.
• Semantic markup and aria labels are used to support accessibility (and tested in Lighthouse and Axe).
• Users select five movies to complete their nominations! 🎉

Future Improvements

• Refactor CSS to use Tailwind or a similar framework.
• Support users creating sharable links.
• Add autocomplete to the search input.
• Add more robust testing.

About The Developer

Hi! 👋 I'm Nicolle, a Software Engineer at GitHub.

Deployment

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Learn More

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.

Code Splitting

This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/code-splitting

Analyzing the Bundle Size

This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/analyzing-the-bundle-size

Making a Progressive Web App

This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/making-a-progressive-web-app

Advanced Configuration

This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/advanced-configuration

Deployment

This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/deployment

License

• MIT © Nicolle Romero 2021
• Homepage Illustration by Katerina Limpitsouni (unDraw: https://undraw.co/illustrations)